Mussolini's Children

Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Mussolini’s Children uses the lens of state-mandated youth culture to analyze the evolution of official racism in Fascist Italy. Between 1922 and 1940, educational institutions designed to mold the minds and bodies of Italy’s children between the ages of five and eleven undertook a mission to rejuvenate the Italian race and create a second Roman Empire. This project depended on the twin beliefs that the Italian population did indeed constitute a distinct race and that certain aspects of its moral and physical makeup could be influenced during childhood.Eden K. McLean assembles evidence from state policies, elementary textbooks, pedagogical journals, and other educational materials to illustrate the contours of a Fascist racial ideology as it evolved over eighteen years. Her work explains how the most infamous period of Fascist racism, which began in the summer of 1938 with the publication of the “Manifesto of Race,” played a critical part in a more general and long-term Fascist racial program.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-07-01
Mått152 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor348
FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN9781496206428

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of Common AcronymsIntroductionPart 1. Defining Fascist Power and Identity, 1922–291. Designing a Fascist Elementary Education2. “Reawakening the Spirit”Part 2. “Fascistizing” the Nation and Race, 1929–343. From Instruction to Education4. From Fit to FascistPart 3. Resurrecting the Roman Empire, 1934–385. Libro e moschetto, fascista perfetto, 1934–366. Educating Rulers for the Second Roman Empire, 1936–38Part 4. Ensuring the Empire’s Immortality, 1938–407. Enforcing the Racial Ideal8. Enduring Principles of Italian Racial IdentityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

“Mussolini’s Children will become the authoritative study of elementary education and race in Fascist Italy. . . . McLean convincingly argues that, from the 1920s onward, primary schools, youth groups, children’s radio broadcasts, and other media focused on the health of the `race’ or `stock,’ laying the groundwork for official racism and anti-Semitism.”- Michael R. Ebner, associate professor of history at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University“A vivid illustration of how hegemony works in transmitting the ideas of high culture to society at large. The great strength of the book lies in Eden McLean’s indefatigable research on the Fascist educational organizations, published materials, and the pedagogues who translated the regime’s racial theories into classroom practice.”- Richard Drake, Lucile Speer Research Chair in Politics and History at the University of Montana“Eden McLean draws on new sources and deft historiographical context to create a rich, convincing argument about racism and nationalism under Fascism.”- Mark I. Choate, associate professor of history at Brigham Young University